Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

He's a haircut and a forehand.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

Folks in Irihs might not be as welcoming as they were here. Resentment lingers.''So we're going to be in danger.''No more than any other day of your life.

Every woman's man and every man's woman.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

There is no place in "our Army" for those who sexually harass or intimidate others, or whose use of alcohol or drugs degrades themselves and the soldiers around them.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put your hand in the alligator,” while terror says, “Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.